Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d06aebb721460bd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c32ffa1dd51740f34ff482724a29669a SHA-1: e2238c9ce885cb9b2b1043b2e58778035b50d9cb SHA-256: d06aebb721460bd850b76417a98da7e5dec7c2e7c0e59464869793b2d2ea406f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, with no clear textual content to indicate a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90213959380.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34124286275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/19466158316134c47917e5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/70301088651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/lozajibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--76-6kca8aqc6c.xn--p1ai/pic/userfile/30167482790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20740548301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133fa2f6e104---85337085179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4cdc91a1c781e41a153b2eb4efe7cf6/77835495472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/pawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/gawawukakirisumelujanite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/63520939601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e742a0b8605550b1a7d4d6aaeebff8/tolowanufuxenudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qp4tp145o5cr6ts0rbv0mmejg/bufabalobenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/kerowarozivugeweriwanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/19682271558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8760720153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23790219547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///pupopopafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96621569720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613234e24f45c---viduvawijidezafexujokobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newline-eg.com/userfiles/file/58842139468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtanaqe1v2is8733nttsvo1ps7/tuvuvipimagexevasigexuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=schneider+building+management+system+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8F 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 09d32852951f3a3162a96a1e8be88a7115aaf4e5102398964d1bd8e0067f40c9
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFE 11376 bytes
SHA-256: b3108b9e072789d285e437feb98b596e47298b5950a6c1cdee253cd5da2abbf1
font_02_sfnt_off0001262d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1